We’re happy to announce that we have acquired MaplePOS, a cloud-based point-of-sale product for restaurants. The product will now be called Zomato Base, and information on the product is now available at zomato.com/base.

Base is an incredibly functional Android-based POS system that uses custom hardware for a more reliable and flexible product experience. It offers restaurants features such as menu and inventory management, and has a built-in payment solution to accept debit and credit card payments. This acquisition takes us a step closer to providing end-to-end tech to the restaurant industry. In an industry that has seen very little technology penetration so far, we’re excited to be driving this change at a large scale.

Zomato Base will be topped with features such as Menu Management, Inventory Management, Recipe Management, Customer Relationship Management, Data Analytics, Electronic Receipts, Offline Transaction Support, Payment Gateway Integration and a stealth feature that will change the way restaurants go about their business (watch this space for details).

We’re probably the only food-tech company in the world that is building products for consumers as well as restaurant businesses. There is a lot that can be done if we are able to build a technology platform that connects consumers to restaurants and vice versa, and we believe that a world-class cloud-based POS system is the first step towards building that platform.

MaplePOS is a great point-of-sale product, and the team – Arun, Varun, and Abhishek – have done a great job to give it shape. We’re excited about working with them to build this further and realize our dream of building the best and most widely adopted restaurant point of sale system in the world.

We’ll be working on integrating Base’s services into our consumer products over the next few months, and restaurant businesses across the world will be able to harness the power of Zomato Base this fall.